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Catching up: a new job and lead up to Lockdown 2.0 (2021)
Term 3 started and I began a new contract at the Australian Electoral Commission, part of surge staffing for the Federal Election which was set to happen anytime between August 2021 (highly unlikely) and May 2022 (increasingly likely as Covid-encrusted 2021 wore on). Although I was interested in the job and thought it would be…
Catching up: Winter 2021
Hello! I’m blogging again on my new blog, Heart and Crossbones, after a break since early last year. I didn’t blog for many reasons, but I thought about blogging and what I wanted to capture. The pandemic years, and 2022 is the third one now, have been like a choppy sea – periods of calm…
Catching up… Easter holidays 2021
It was Easter 2022 a few months ago now (I’ll write about that in an upcoming post). I always intended to publish this post about Easter 2021, my last draft on The Alexcellent Life blog, so here it is… Magic Mike, the social whirl and hanging harbourside with Dr.Norman Swan It was April 2021. It…
Heart and Crossbones
Hello, welcome to the first post of my new blog Heart and Crossbones. It’s a personal blog recounting memories of my son’s childhood, and stories about our life together as he grows up. It’s also about special times with family and friends, and the little ordinary joys of life that are worth pausing on to…
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Hello, I’m Alex. Heart and Crossbones is the adventures of me and my son as we journey through life with our three guinea pigs
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